Stories, guides and insights from the Laruus community — written by 3D artists and designers.
Upholstery is usually where an otherwise good interior render gives itself away. The sofa is modelled correctly, the proportions are right, the lighting is fine, and the fabric still reads as painted…
When a material looks wrong, most people reach for a better texture. Usually the texture was fine and the size was wrong. Scale and tiling cause more unconvincing surfaces in architectural renders th…
Wood flooring covers more of an interior render than almost any other surface, and the pattern you lay it in does more work than the species you choose. A mediocre oak in the right pattern at the rig…
Before you spend credits on a model, it helps to know exactly what lands on your disk. Here is what a Laruus model archive contains and why it is packaged the way it is. The source scene Every model…
Open a texture set and you get a folder of images with names like albedo, normal, roughness and AO. Most guides explain what they are called. This one explains what happens in your render when you ge…
A wood texture can carry an entire interior render, or quietly ruin it. The material is rarely the problem — the way it is scaled, oriented and lit usually is. Here is how we think about wood when we…
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